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Every Byte Matters 2 months ago

We compiled one of our Java app to native binary using GraalVM (for encyption and secret managment needs). Side effect is the Java native binary performance is excellent, app startup time also significantly less compared to JVM version.

I am not sure how it compares with C++, Rust and Zig, but we made a benchmark with a similar Go binary, Java native version performance (load tests) is similar to Go binary. Only RAM usage of Java native binary is 3 times to Go binary (and JVM app took almost 10 times more RAM than Go version).

asterisk is inexplicably used both to declare a pointer and a COMPLETELY different operation of dereferencing a pointer.

This is the most confusing concept of pointers. I feel this could have been easily avoided with different character like ~ or ^ or other.

AI isn’t ready to take full control of critical systems, and maybe it never will be. But big companies are rushing ahead, and users are placing trust in these big companies.

I believe AI should suggest, not act. I was surprised to see tools like Google CLI and Warp.dev confidently editing user files. Are they really 100% sure of their AI products? At the very least, there should be a proper undo. Even then, mistakes can slip through.

If you just want a simple terminal AI that suggests (not takes over), try https://geni.dev (built on Gemini, but will never touch your system).

Beautiful. I made few CNC's in my previous life, started a CNC company and bankrupted. Bankrupt because I tried to make everything myself, including electronic circuits. Your work looks great, congrats.

I suggest you keep a small video on the homepage(maybe youtube video). Also your site took a little time to load because of huge images (especially github image is 11mb).

This is such a wonderful idea, congrats.

There is a real usecase for this in some high security sectors. I can't put complete info here for the security reasons, let me know if you are interested.

Animated Drawings 3 years ago

Thank you Thank you Thank you, my kid loving it. I will be happy to volunteer and help in anyway I can.

My experience with Firebase. I worked on AWS, Azure, GCloud and Firebase. I feel Firebase is the easiest way to deploy web application. It provides features like Web-hosting, User-Authentication, Cloud-Functions and Database, Storage. Firebase is popular in mobile app world also. User-Auth is the easiest on Firebase.

Imagine you are new to cloud world and you want to deploy production ready web app (not a toy project). With Firebase you can confidently and quickly make the app with little learning. This confident part is very important, with AWS you have to fight with AWS configuration for months, then also you may have doubts.

Firebase is acquired by Google-Cloud but still exists as a separate entity. For every Firebase project there is a behind the scene Google-Cloud project created.

My main complaint is their databases (they have two db's). RealtimeDB(which I believe will be deprecated) and FirestoreDB. FirestoreDB is proprietary and limited in features. For example there is no way to have a auto-increment(which is often used in many applications). The work-around suggested by Firestore auto-increment is very ugly. Direct editing and modifying the data (not programmatically) in FirestoreDB is a pain. There is no official db-query feature, if you have more data (like more than 1000 elements) their webUI to navigate FirestoreDB data is of no use.